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2023 James Beard Nominees

What's for Dessert
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Bookplate-signed copies now available! A love letter to dessert by the New York Times bestselling author of Dessert Person Claire Saffitz returns with 100 recipes for all dessert people—whether you’re into impressive-yet-easy molten lava cakes, comforting rice pudding, or decadent chestnut brownies. In this all-new collection, Claire shares recipes for icebox cakes, pies,...
What's for Dessert : Simple Recipes for Dessert People

Claire Saffitz

Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico
An enticing, regional, and stunning exploration of Mexican cuisine from beloved food writer and host of the Babish Culinary Universe show “Pruébalo” on YouTube and Food52’s “Sweet Heat” series, Rick Martínez.In his first, much-anticipated cookbook, New York Times contributor, Food52 columnist, and former Bon Appétit food editor Rick Martínez introduces home cooks to the...
Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico : A Cookbook

Rick Martínez

I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes
150 fast and flexible recipes to use what you have and make what you want, from New York Times contributor Ali SlagleWith minimal ingredients and maximum joy in mind, Ali Slagle’s no-nonsense, completely delicious recipes are ideal for dinner tonight—and every single night. Like she does with her instantly beloved recipes in the New...
I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes : Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes

Ali Slagle

The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition
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Bookplated-signed copies! 100+ fresh, plant-based, umami-packed recipes that show the range of traditional and modern Chinese vegan cuisine from the creator of The Plant-Based Wok.When Hannah Che decided to become a vegan, she was concerned that it would alienate her from the traditions and food that her Chinese family celebrated....
The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition

Hannah Che

Tava: Eastern European Baking and Desserts From Romania & Beyond
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Bookplate-signed copies available! Winner of the 2023 James Beard Book Award for Baking & Dessert Tava means tray in Romanian, a metaphor for how a whole culinary landscape is presented to the reader. You will find Armenian pakhlava, Saxon plum pies, Swabian poppyseed crescents, Jewish fritters, and Hungarian langoși alongside plăcinte pies, alivenci corn cake, strudels and fruit dumplings. Rice or...
Tava: Eastern European Baking and Desserts From Romania & Beyond : Eastern European Baking and Desserts From Romania & Beyond

Irina Georgescu

The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More
Winner of the 2023 James Beard Book Award for Bread A dynamic, authoritative sourdough baking bible for those looking to build confidence in the craft with a wide range of foolproof recipes, from pan loaves to pizza to doughnuts, by the beloved blogger and resident bread baker at Food52Maurizio Leo’s blog The Perfect...
The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More : A Baking Book

Maurizio Leo

The Cook You Want to Be
One of Bon Appétit’s favorite talents shows you how to define and develop your individual cooking style—and become the cook you want to be—in 120 recipes.Andy Baraghani learned to cook professionally in such vaunted restaurants as Chez Panisse and Estela, but his love for flavor began with the comforting home dishes of...
The Cook You Want to Be : Everyday Recipes to Impress

Andy Baraghani

In Praise of Veg
"Alice Zaslavsky is a force of nature!" —Nigella Lawson The only book you’ll ever need on vegetables, with a kaleidoscope of 150+ colorful, innovative recipes for meals of all kinds.Food writer Alice Zaslavsky has written the definitive guide for everyone—from vegan to carnivore—who is ready to open their kitchen to a world...
In Praise of Veg : The Ultimate Cookbook for Vegetable Lovers

Alice Zaslavsky

Turkey and the Wolf
A fun and flavorful book of 95 dynamic recipes that put a playful spin on Southern food, from the James Beard Award-nominated owner of Turkey and the Wolf in New Orleans.Mason Hereford grew up in rural Virginia, where he frequented local country stores that sold everything from gas and ammo to broccoli-cheese...
Turkey and the Wolf : Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans

Mason Hereford, JJ Goode

New European Baking
From sweet to savory, basic breads to fancy pastry, this elegant and thoroughly modern cookbook distills centuries of European tradition and heritage into mouthwatering recipes that home bakers can create in their own kitchens.Just like many pandemic-driven Americans, Europeans are turning on their ovens and rediscovering their roots through baking. This...
New European Baking : 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries

Laurel Kratochvila

Mezcla
100 recipes for everyday eating with built-in wow factor, from the Ottolenghi protégé and co-author of Ottolenghi Flavor shaking up the food world.MEZCLA means mix, blend, or fusion in Spanish, and in her first solo cookbook, Ixta Belfrage—loved for her inventive ingredient combinations—shares her favorite mezcla of flavors. Helpfully divided into quick recipes (for when you need...
Mezcla : Recipes to Excite

Ixta Belfrage

The Miller's Daughter: Unusual Flours & Heritage Grains
The very true story of how author Emma Zimmerman re-started Arizona's historic Hayden Flour Mills, rescued obscure grains from the brink of extinction, and what she ate along the way. The Miller's Daughter is a cookbook at the forefront of America’s heritage grain movement with 80 glorious recipes and beautiful, candid...
The Miller's Daughter: Unusual Flours & Heritage Grains : Stories and Recipes from Hayden Flour Mills

Emma Zimmerman

California Soul (paperback)
One way or another, Chef Keith Corbin has been cooking almost his entire life. Born in Watts in 1980, he grew up in the Jordan Downs Projects, home turf of the notorious Grape Street Watts Crips. At age thirteen, during the peak of America’s lurid fascination with LA gang culture,...
California Soul (paperback) : An American Epic of Cooking and Survival

Keith Corbin, Kevin Alexander

Chinese-ish
A cookbook celebrating the blending of cultures and identity through food, with a bounty of Chinese-influenced dishes from all over South-East Asia.As immigrants with Chinese heritage, Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu spent their formative years living between (at least) two cultures and wondering how they fitted in. Food was a...
Chinese-ish : Home Cooking Not Quite Authentic, 100% Delicious

Rosheen Kaul, Joanna Hu, Armelle Habib

Savor
A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in this stunning, lyrical memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyondFatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the season fifteen "Fan...
Savor : A Chef's Hunger for More

Fatima Ali, with Tarajia Morrell

To Fall in Love, Drink This
From veteran wine writer and James Beard Award winner Alice Feiring, an insightful and entertaining memoir of wine, love, heartbreak, and the never-ending process of coming-of-age.Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine writer—the kind who dares to disagree with wine “experts”, and who believes wholeheartedly that the best wine...
To Fall in Love, Drink This : A Wine Writer's Memoir

Alice Feiring

Slaves for Peanuts
Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom. Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions. Author...
Slaves for Peanuts : A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History

Jori Lewis

What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the world-making capacities of mushrooms radically challenge this orthodoxy by revealing the lively...
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make

Michael J. Hathaway

California Soul
One way or another, Chef Keith Corbin has been cooking almost his entire life. Born in Watts in 1980, he grew up in the Jordan Downs Projects, home turf of the notorious Grape Street Watts Crips. At age thirteen, during the peak of America’s lurid fascination with LA gang culture,...
California Soul : An American Epic of Cooking and Survival

Keith Corbin, Kevin Alexander

Bludso's BBQ Cookbook
A deep look at family, community, and Texas BBQ through 90 recipes and stories from the famous pitmaster and restaurateur behind Bludso’s BBQ.Kevin Bludso was born and raised in Compton, California, by a Black Panther–supporting mother and a police officer father. To stay out of trouble, he spent his summers...
Bludso's BBQ Cookbook : A Family Affair in Smoke and Soul

Kevin Bludso, Noah Galuten

Sunday Best
Cook your “Sunday best” any day of the week with 100 recipes that celebrate the joy of home cooking and family meals, from Top Chef finalist Adrienne Cheatham.Chef Adrienne Cheatham spent her career cooking in some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants, from Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin to Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster....
Sunday Best : Cooking Up the Weekend Spirit Every Day

Adrienne Cheatham, Sarah Zorn

Eating While Black
Eating should be easy, but it’s not.Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and...
Eating While Black : Food Shaming and Race in America

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Breadsong
Featuring must-have techniques and more than 80 recipes, a celebration of bread, baking, and the life-saving power of discovering a passion. Kitty Tait grew up a chatty redhead who made everyone in her family laugh. But around the time she turned 14, Kitty began experiencing anxiety. She slowly disconnected from...
Breadsong : How Baking Changed Our Lives

Kitty Tait, Al Tait

Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake
Winner of the 2023 James Beard Book Award for Beverage without Recipes  This stunning guide invites you into the story of sake—an ancient beverage finding its way in a modern world.Whether you're a sake novice or an experienced connoisseur, Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake offers fascinating insights, practical tips, and rich stories...
Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake : Rice, Water, Earth

Nancy Matsumoto, Michael Tremblay